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  • #5155
    beattie
    beattie
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    On the morsbags facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/morsbags) Pol writes that there’s been a huge increase in label orders. They’re flying out into the wild, she says, (when released by the adorable, sparkly-eyed morsbaby – see photo on facebook page).

    November saw a huge number of morsbags made – the total came to 3867, made by 45 pods. Congratulations, everyone – that’s a massive number to be made by little groups of volunteers or solopoddists all over the world.

    Who are these industrious sewers? The list is a long one –

    Plym Pod
    ECOBAGS
    Bude Baggers
    Fleckney Bees
    Bagistas
    Cuckoobird
    Trusty Bags (aka Offcuts2)
    Offcuts
    Whissybags
    Charnwood
    Wir in Arnsberg
    South Gwent Pod
    Ladybag
    Butterfly Bags
    Pickering Stitchers
    Macs Bags
    Tonia’s Sewing patch
    Ostholstein
    Wundertuete
    Greenbags
    The Lazy Baggers
    South Bucks Bags
    Meddon Morsbaggers
    School_Freimettigen
    SewingStephStaines
    Norfolk Knitters and Stitchers
    So Mrs Bag
    Salt Line Studio
    Stitchbirds
    Beautiful Bay
    Poddington Peas
    BusyBags
    Bags for life
    Greener Sawston
    Harborough Hit Bags
    Hopstitching
    swindon stitch social
    Te Awa Pod
    Jouvlie Baggers
    Olden-Bags
    fingerhut-vellern
    Darting Frog
    sewing sisters
    cats in the bags
    Beuteltier

    I hope Offcuts will let me know if there are any duplicates!

    There were 13 new pod registrations –

    Meddon Morsbaggers
    Beautiful Bay
    Eco-Friendly LaurelHighlands
    fingerhut-vellern
    It’s In The Bag
    The Lazy Baggers
    SewingStephStaines
    School_Freimettigen
    TickPod
    BusyBags
    KellyBraybaggers
    Bags by the beach
    Clara’s solo effort

    Congratulations squared to the pods which appear in both lists! I’m always impressed when someone doesn’t let the grass grow under their feet, when they get some labels and get started PDQ. Well done all!

    Some of the messages from new pods caught my eye.

    Meddon Morsbaggers write “A Micro Pod of one (so far) on the far North West border where Devon meets Cornwall. We aim to hold occasional, sociable, bag making sessions in our village hall.”

    fingerhut-vellern writes “Handmade with love for animals”

    School_Freimettigen in Switzerland writes –
    “The children from the 5. and 6. class will organise a session where we will create as many bags as possible. It will take place at 17.2.2016 from 13.30 to 16.30 at the school. Everyone can join us.”
    Great planning ahead here 🙂

    We have a gentleman (I assume) solopoddist, Tickpod, who writes “Lone sewer (with aid from my wife).”

    #5161
    Agwen
    Agwen
    Participant

    That is a lot of lovely bags. Was everyone, like us getting ready to hand out bags at the Christmas bazar. Good to see school children getting involved.

    #5163
    Catherine Appleton
    Catherine Appleton
    Participant

    wow, i love to see these lists. Meddon is no longer a micro pod – she’s got a group of Meddon residents together to make bags, I went and spent a morning with them, giving them a few tips, answering questions and so on to get them started. They’re only about 20 minutes or so from me, so we may get together for some events, or just communal bagmaking.

    #5169
    offcuts
    offcuts
    Participant

    Quite a lot of Offcuts2 bags have gone off to Christmas Fairs.Amazing achievement this month!

    #5170
    beattie
    beattie
    Keymaster

    I hope your Christmas bazaar handout went well Agwen!

    It’s nice to hear that Meddon Morsbaggers is getting on so well, Cathapple. Great that you were able to lend a little hand on the launch pad. 😀

    Like Offcuts, I was amazed at the number of morsbags made last month. Good work handing them all out. 😀

    #5171
    beattie
    beattie
    Keymaster

    Double post, but let’s use the space to mention Tesco’s figures on plastic bag use since the charge came in……

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by beattie beattie.
    #5178
    Agwen
    Agwen
    Participant

    We handed out 75 bags at our Christmas Bazaar. We thought our village would be swamped with morsbags by now but no, there were still people who didn’t know about morsbags. We will just have to keep educating them.

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